Earth Day Panel
The Parrish Art Museum will host an Earth Day panel on Saturday starting at 2 p.m. with a talk in its theater followed by a reception at 3. In addition to Earth Day, the event celebrates the museum’s current exhibition “Regeneration: Long Island’s History of Ecological Art and Care” and Robert Rauschenberg’s centennial.
The panelists include Helen Hsu, associate curator for research at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, and “Regeneration” artists Scott Bluedorn, Jeremy Dennis, Sasha Fishman, and Tucker Marder. Scout Hutchinson, the FLAG Art Foundation associate curator of contemporary art, will moderate the conversation.
Tickets are $30, $25 for members’ guests, and free for members, resident benefits passholders, students, and children.
Two Solos at Halsey McKay
“GHSTBKSX,” a solo show of work by Ann Pibal, and “Sun and Rain,” paintings by Colin Brant, are on view at the Halsey McKay Gallery in East Hampton through May 17.
Pibal’s recent body of work features rich fields of color alongside reflective, sparkling, and metallic surfaces. These depictions of reflection, says the gallery, operate in dialogue with established themes of her practice, including diagrammatic representations of the book, frame, stage, curtain, and mirror, while introducing an openness to allusions of watery spatial environments.
Brant’s paintings feature a figure or figures that appear as part of a landscape narrative. Drawing from old black-and-white photos, vintage postcards, film stills, and album covers, Brant builds landscapes with figures that reflect on movement and transformation.
Art Groove
Art Groove, an annual exhibition organized by Geralyne Lewandowski, will return to Ashawagh Hall in Springs on Saturday from noon till 10 and Sunday from 11 to 4. A reception, set for Saturday from 6 to 10, will feature a performance by the King Bees at 7, outdoor video projections by John Jinks at 8, and dancing from 8 to 10 with D.J. G-Funk.
The exhibition features work by 18 East End artists, along with a small-works benefit show and sale offering works by 40 artists priced under $500. On Sunday, Hans Van de Bovenkamp will sign books from 1 to 2 and John Jinks will present video from noon to 2, after which Chip Duyck and Joyce Raimondo will perform songs from the 1960s and ’70s.
Goldilocks Revisited
“Goldi,” an exhibition of 16 handmade cotton batik panels by Nicole A. Vanasse that reinterpret the story of Goldilocks, will open at the Women’s Art Center of the Hamptons in Bridgehampton on Saturday, with a reception from 5 to 7 p.m. The show will run through June 14.
Goldi is a curious and slightly mischievous cat who wanders into the home of the Bears, here envisioned as a human family. The story unfolds through fabric, pattern, and gesture, with each panel capturing a moment of discovery: testing a chair, exploring a table, finding a place to rest.
Each panel is constructed from layered and dyed textiles, composed to create depth, movement, and emotional resonance, according to the gallery.
Semmel Solo in TriBeCa
“Continuities,” a show of recent paintings by Joan Semmel, will open Friday at Alexander Gray Associates in TriBeCa and remain on view through May 30. Now 93, Semmel’s paintings present the aging female form squarely at the center, without apology or disguise.
The works in the show draw on strategies that have long shaped her work — the cropping and emotive color of her 1970s canvases, the multiple figures of her “Overlays” (1992-1996), and “Shifting Image” compositions (2006-20013). In works such as “Partners” (2024) and “Fleshed Out” (2025), layering allows more than one version of her figure to remain visible, as if the body echoes across the surface of the canvas, according to the gallery. In others, color and paint handling create the sense of movement without doubling the form outright.
